This week’s articles are about peptides that mediate communication between viruses, how microglia induce reactive astrocytes that contribute to neuronal cell death, and how kinases of the Hippo pathway influence breast cell fate.

Liddelow et al. found that cytokines secreted by microglia induce a subtype of reactive astrocytes that contribute to the death of neurons in mice and are associated with neurodegenerative disorders in humans.

Papers of note in Nature541 (7638)

By Annalisa M. VanHook

Sci. Signal.31 Jan 2017

This week’s articles are about peptides that mediate communication between viruses, how microglia induce reactive astrocytes that contribute to neuronal cell death, and how kinases of the Hippo pathway influence breast cell fate.

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Papers of note in Nature541 (7638)

By Annalisa M. VanHook

Sci. Signal.31 Jan 2017

This week’s articles are about peptides that mediate communication between viruses, how microglia induce reactive astrocytes that contribute to neuronal cell death, and how kinases of the Hippo pathway influence breast cell fate.